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A DISTRACTED PARENT.
Five daughters—four of them engaged— j
I think I eliall go mad!
For such a surfeiting of love
No parent ever had.
The very atmosphere is charged
With it; no matter where
I go about the house I trip
Upon 3ome whisiieriiig pair.
At evening when I take my pipe
And seek a quiet nook
To sit and read my paper, or
Some new anil tempting book,
I ope, perhaps, the parlor door.
When a familiar sound.
Quite unmistakable, suggests
It is forbidden ground.
So then more cautiously I turn
To our reception room;
lint lo! again upon my ear
From its romantic gloom
Comes softly, yet with emphasis,
That warning; when 1 start
And leave as Lady Macbeth wished
Her guests woutd all depart.
Mv next resort is then the porch,
U'here rosea trail and bloom;
Ha! is it echo that betrays
The joys of yonder room?
Ah, no! a startled change of base
Reveals the presence there
Of Cupid’s votaries, and, alas!
There's still another pair.
“But sure,” I think, “my library
Will be a safe retreat.’’
So there at once with quickened step
I take my wearied feet.
Vain warning sound again
Breaks on my listening ear;
Thank heaven! my youngest hath not yet
Attained her thirteenth year.
Hark ! there she is! and bless my heart.
That popinjay, young Lunn,
Is at her side—l do believe
That she. too, has begun.
Oh, ye who live to sit and dream
Of future married joys.
I’ray heaven with honest fervor that
Your girls may all be boys.
—Philadelphia Press.
“A BOTTLE.”
ERNEST M'GOFFEY.
In a cabin locker for many a year
A bottle lay; •
And whether the weather was fair and clear.
Or whether the ocean was rough and gray.
The liottle had nothing to care or fear;
Yet the ship was ait iron oaken mass.
And the other was nothing but brittle glass—
A bottle.
Where the billows rose highest, the storm king
flew
Over the sea:
And the waters foamed and the wild winds
blew.
While the mad waves tossed in a whirling
glee.
And all that was left of a ship and crew
Came, bringing its message with silent lips
or the perils of those who go down in ships—
A bottle.
SEALS SHOT AND LASSOED.
Arctic Sport on the Shores of Staten
Island—Faithful to its Dead Mate.
Two fur seals, estimated to be about
five feet long, were seen lying for several
hours yesterday on a large ice floe that
tbe wind had driven close to the shore
near South Beach, Clifton, Staten Island,
says the New York Sun of thetithinst.
Two young men named Rollinson procur
ed rifles and a boat, and tried to get out
near them. The floe was too thick for
them to make headway, however, and
they hauled the boat ashore again. They
then singled out a seal each, and fired
simultaneously. One of tbe two creatures
threw its head about for a lew seconds,
and then lay perfectly still. It was ap
parently mortally wounded. The other,
which did not seem to be hurt, flopped off
the iee into the water, and began to swim
around its companion. The ice soon
turned red about the latter. The young
men tired several shots at tbe head ot the
live seal, but the excitement of hunting
gave place to pity at the evident devotion
to the dead one, and the firing ceased. A
crowd stood looking on for about two
hours, until the seal in the water tried to
crawl up on the iee again, when the
wei; bt of its body tipped tbe cake over,
and the carcass of the dead seal rolled
into the water. Neither was seen again.
Another large-sized seal .vas noticed on
the iee close to a wharf at Stapleton. A
saloon keeper, who was formerly a ranch
man, took a lariat down from behind his
bar. greased it, and went down to the
wharf, lie got his hand in first by lasso
ing a spile in handsome style. Then he
crawled out to the end of the wharf,
gathered his long leather thong up, and
sent it circling through the snowflakes.
The noose fell on the seal. The thrower
gave a jerk as the seal started up. It
flopped off the ice, but it was
soon 6eeu to have been caught
by the noose directly around
its neck and under one flipper. A crowd
on the wharf began to haul in on the
lariat amid wild excitement. When the
seal was within a tew feet ofthewhart,
however, and had been plainly seen
several times, the noose slipped from its
smooth skin, and the coveted prize glided
away.
Another seal was discoverd on an ice
cake a little north of the Tomckinsville
Basin. A boat containin'” men tin*
out from a cfUdshing omack at anenor in
cue Laiu, and when the crew had pulled
about a mile to the windward of the seal
thej r shipped tneir oars, iav down flat in
the boat, and permitted the' yawl to drift
with the wind. One of the three lay on
his stomach in the bow with a rifle point
ed toward tbe seal. Another was m the
stern holding an oar with which he kept
the boat headed for the seal. The seal did
not notice the boat, which came so close
to him that as soon as the rifleman dis
charged his weapon the other two
sprang up, seized boat books, and before
their victim could get into the water thev
had plunged the hooks into it. It was
soon killed. It was five feet long.
Ho* the Scheme for the Bartholdi Statue
Originated.
Correspondence Pittsburg Telegraph.
It is not generally known how the
scheme for a colossai statue of Liberty
originated. It was about lifteen years
ago when M. Bartholdi came to this
country (or the first time, bringing letters
with hint from Edouard Laboulaye and
other good friends of union between
France and America. One of the persons
to whom M. Bartholdi went upon his arri
val here was Miss Booth, well known as
a translator ot books by Laboulaye, as
one of the first historians* of our city, and
as the editor of Harper's Bazar. M. Bar
tholdi presented to Miss Booth his con
ception of a colossal statue, .which might
stand permanently as a mark of French
brotuerhood with the United States. He
said, moreover, that, as he was sailing
up the bay, he observed Bedloe’s island,
which seemed to him the right place for
such a statue.
M. Bartholdi’s scheme—which came, of
course, to-the knowledge of many persons
—was discussed industriously,’and the
upshot was that the scluptor returned to
his country with certain definite inten
tions. At that time Bartholdi had an ex
cellent reputation as a sculptor and
architect. He had done some brilliant
work, and he was regarded as an artist of
singular promise. He had also accom
plished more labor on a large and even
colossal scale. 31. Bartholdi’s plans for
a liberty statue were completed during
the emperorship of Napoleon 111. Then
came the war with Prussia, which put a
stop to his undertaking. It was after the
war. when the French republic was firmly
established, that the sculptor took up his
scheme again and gave publicity to it.
He asked the French people to subscribe
for the statue. The French people sub
scribed readily, one might almost say sou
by sou. Then* 31. Bartholdi turned his
sight to our own country, and asked us to
subscribe for a pedestal, on which the
statue could be placed. That was several
years ago. We have not yet subscribed
the amount which is needed for the
pedestal.
Didn't Know the Company Wag So
Tricky.
Arkan*utc Traveller.
Shortly after a fire the other day a color
ed gentleman called on an insurance agent
and said:
“Wants my money, Cap’n.”
“I don’t owe you any money.”
“Ain’t yesse’f de ’sho’ence agent ?”
“Yes, 1 am an insurance agent.”
“Den yer owes me money, for my stq’
burned up endurin’ de late tire, sah.”
“You were not insured in my com
pany.”
“De debbil I wa’n’t.”
“Come, get out ot here.”
“Hold on, boss, an’leinme ’splain. Wus
Mr. Jones ’shored in ver eomp’ny ?”
“Yes.”
“Wuz Mr, Jackson?"
“Yes.”
“Wal an’ good. Now, my sto’ wuz jes
pertwixt Mr. Jones and Mr. Jackson. De
walls o’ dar sto’s made de walls o’ my
sto’. Ef yer’d a took dar sto’s erway, my ,
sto' woul’der been gone. De inshoin o’ I
dar own sto’s insho’ed mine, doan yer !
see?”
“No; I don’t see.”
“Den 1 aiu’t goin’ ter get nothin’, is I?” I
“No.”
“I’ll recolleck dis, sah, an’ see whut de
cou’t ’ouse’ll hab to say,” and turning !
away he muttered: “Ef I’der knowed de
comp’ny wuz so tricky 1 wouldn’ter settle
blame sto’ afire.” 1
A FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. ;
BOTH COUNTRIES BATHER
EAGER FOR THE FRAY.
Opinions of Leading Warriors of the
Two Nations on the Coming Combat—
Galliffet and De Saussier as Leaders
of the French—Bonapartist Dissen
sions.
Correspondence of the Morning h ews.
Paris, Feb. 20.—Opinion here con
tinues to be markedly reserved on the
present aspect of Egyptian affairs. In
baiting England, as it were, to make an
effort to restore order in the Soudan it was
never anticipated that such wouklneees
sitate the permanent occupation ot Egypt
—the issue now inevitable. If it be true
that Gordon Pasha sanctions the slave
trade as one-of his remedial measures, an
outcry will be raised. The French regard
the abolition of the custom of mercantile
slavery as only of secondary considera
tion. Its extinction ought to be gradual,
they say; in a word, a work of time. It is
only by dividing the followers of the
False Prophet that the latter are extir
pated.
There is rather aD unpleasant number
of brochures now appearing, having for
common text the coming war between
France and Germany. It is admitted
on all bands that tbe Prussians would
not in any future campaign have a walk
over, and that both nations are about ex
equo on the chances of invasion. A Dutch
General.aud accepted as a good authority,
has just published a pamphlet on “The
French Army of 1884 and Gen. Galliffet.’’
The wi iter ranks Galliffet as the coining
man; he sees no general superior to him
in France. Now Galliffet is an excellent
cavalry tactician, nearly as brilliant as
Baker Pasha. He has a charmed life, anil
is so hacked with wounds that legend af
firms it is thanks to the surgeons that the
fragments of his body are kept together.
However, it is to Gen. De Saussier, a
soldier of the St. Arnaud school, that
France in general turns her eyes. He has
just been nominated Governor of the army
of Paris. The Dutch author pleads that
the Republic ought to be very cautious
how it deals with its Generals, and not
make them the sport of politics. Unfor
tunately, Galliffet is for the masses, a po
litical General, and there De Saussier sur
passes him. The latter has also a higher
reputation for ability in conducting ar
mies—that which is considered of greater
importance than directing a combat.
Baron von de Goltz. of the superior staff
of the German army, in his brochure on
‘•Armed Nations,’ lays down as tbe prin
ciple of success in luture combats the ef
ficient handling, morally and physically,
of a small but well disciplined lorce.
.Masses of men, if not trained, are simply
hordes—a hindrance more than a help,
and that anew Alexander would drive
j before him “like a flock of timid shop
; keepers.” The Baron thinks the moment
; has arrived for completing the invasion of
! 1870-’7l: the French are now well cooked,
! thanks to their political divisions, and
| require to be taken off tbe spit and served
i up. It obligatory military education, adds
the author, be good for a nation, it is not
for a people like the French, who have
: become enervated by the love of
luxury, that has ‘ blunted their
I sense of patriotic duty and sac-
I rifice. The Baron is all wrong here; there
| is no diminution in the hate for the Ger
! man in France: no disinclination to try the
quarrel hilt to hilt, when the time and the
man shall have come. The longer that
I terrible issue is delayed the more the odds
will be in favor of France. The Baron
von Goltz so well knows this that he would
like to try the question at once. He fur
ther deplores the progress-of-peace-at-anv
price doctrine.
j NOW THAT WE AHE IN W IRE COMMUNI
CATION
! with Tonquin we have less news than
j ever. It is considered prudent to have
| more troops at Tonquin before the attack
: oa Bacninh be commenced—to be pre
! pared for eventualities, and the troops
! are being shipped off as rapidly as trans
ports can be found. The French draw’ at
tention to the enormous advantages Eng
land commands by her military poeses
j sions dotted over the whole surface of the
globe, by which she can at once concen
j trate forces on any distant point without
! having to wait for full supplies from the
I mother country, like France,
j The Bonapartists have been “capriol
j ing” of late, but there is no evidence of
i business in all this display. The country
i does not at all respond to the piping. The
j Napoleonic legend is simply played out;
| the Bonapartists only attract by the dis
j sensions between J’rince Napoleon and
I his son, Prince Victor, dissensions that
the latter unquestionably favors, despite
all his protestations of homage and re
spect for his parent. The party is di
vided into royalist and radical camps.
But that does v ot bring them a whit
nearer the!'- solution for all that is not s
' it fA.onid be, viz., a Bonapartistvfor Em-
I peror. The moiety of the party is tor the
[ election of a constituent assembly to re
vise the constitution in the sense* of get
ting rid of it, w hile the radicals desire
that assembly to solidify the Republic.
The English Chamber of Commerce has
just held its annual dinner and ball. It
improved the occasion by inviting that
youngest of young fellows, M.deLesseps,
the Orleanist deputy Ribot and M. Rou
vier, whose name is identified with free
trade and treaties of commerce. M. de
Lesseps has only two ballads, “Suez” and
“Panama.” These he delivers as ever.
He felt only increased pride in having
adopted ideas as to the value of canals
because, having been handed down from
scriptural times, he was only tho “pro
moter” of the Suez canal; the original
idea of that great work came from an
Englishman, Mr. Chesnay. M. de Les
seps admitted that in dealing with Eng
lishmen in reference to the canal he ever
met with straightforwardness and loyalty.
It seems to be leaking out that the reason
De Lesseps cannot admit more of the
English element in the council ol the ad
ministration is due to the fact that he
would not be supported by the share
holders. Next month, when the general
meeting takes place, will settle the point.
The remainder of the mutual admira
tion business was confined to declara
tions of love, in favor of the resumption of
treaties of commerce and the great sub
channel bore.
ALTHOUGH NOTHING OF A PRACTICAL
CHARACTER
is expected from the Economic Commis
sion of Inquiry, the information gathered,
and the co-ordination of remedies pro
posed, cannot but do good. M. Olemen
ceau, about one of the most hard-headed
politicians in France, devoid of wind
bugism and claptrap, will undertake that
the condition of the English proletaire
shall be made known to the commis
sion and to France. It is strange,
but was to be expected, that
of the intelligent workmen of various
trades, examined iefore the commission,
none had more than parish cures for the
ills that reign. The carpenters lament
that ready-made door frames and window
6asheß come from Scandinavia cure, place
on the imports a prohibitory tax, adopt
the same procrustean treatment towards
labor-saving machines from the United
States and England. Further, when
operatives strike lor increased wages the
state ought to interfere and compel em
ployers to ratify their scale, though the
tariff precludes the employer from com
peting for orders.
Theoretically, the French workman is
humanitarian, cosmopolitan, and free
trader, but the moment he is brought, in
contact with foreign competition he has
no other panacea than to exclude his
rivals from his market, while exacting to
be admitted to theirs. He desires to have
his food and raiment cheap, but insists on
the products of'his labor being artificially
bolstered up. There are no privileged in
dustries in the world, and the problem of
living cheaply and securing high wages
is insolvable. The squaring ot the circle
is child’s play in comparison with Jhis.
Neither the government nor society can
obtain for a workman 2 francs for his
labor when the laws of competition only
permit of 1 franc to secure him a profit
where there is a loss, or to enjoy a remun
eration where such does not exist. There
is neither factitious work nor arbitrary
prices; all are regulated by society itself, i
In the important commission of inquiry !
alluded to the artisans view it as a tri- j
buual to rediess their own wrongs; they I
will favor every abstract theory and
principle, provided it does not put their j
temple in danger.
As this economic parliamentary inquiry
proceeds, the laboring classes commence
to perceive, and so do their employers,
that the remedy is in their own hands.
They must live more frugally, labor more
assiduously, and .practioe more self-de
nial. The citizens delegated by the mu
nicipality of Paris to visit the Boston
Exhibition have just made their report.
It has dissipated many illusions. It rep
resents the American workman to be less
favored even than themselves, subject to
the same laws of supply and demand, and
that on the whole France ofTers more ad
vantagesthan the United States. Simi
lar lessons were tuuirhtjo the artisan dele*
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH A, 1884.
gates at the exhibitions or Philadelphia
and Vienna. If France had not excep
tional advantages fewer foreign workmen
would come here to seek employment.
TBE RUE ROYALK CLUB SCANDAL
is likely to assume serious proportions. \
The police have seized all the books of ■
the club, its pay-ledgers of gains and '
losses, its correspondence, etc. It ap
pears the card cheating by pricking holes
in the important cards, and in fixed
places, was conducted on the principles
laid down long ago by Robert Houdin.
But if persons desire ts'eheat they can do
so effectively by other means. Notably
by telegraphing and pre-arranged vocab
ularies; a mouth half opened means
hearts; firmly closed, spades; the upper
lip drawn over the lower, clubs, and vice
versa, diamonds, all applicable to picquet.
baccarat and lunsquenet; the manner in
which a cigar is lighted or held in smok
ing is also a code quite as intelligible as
any ever Morse invented. But your card
cheat is a thousand times more despica
ble than a “Fra Diavolo.”
Madame Mackey and M. Meissonier are
the talk of the town. That rich American
I lady sat for her portrait to Meissonier;
i the fee was 75,000 francs, a smart figure,
i but it is not every day the artist lias such
a client. A check was given ior half the
■ fee in advance, the balance was settled
jon completion of the painting. Mrs.
! Mackey had a toilette specially made that
| cost 111,0(K) francs, so valuable was the
! lace employed in which she was to be
i taken. She did not like the manner her
j dress was painted, and Meissonier declin
ed to make any alteration; for him, the
work was perfect. On receiving the por
| trait Madame Mackey declined to frame
j it, burned it with a tongs, and when near-
I ly consumed, dropped the blazing frag
i ments into the water-closet. It is said
i Meissonier has a lawsuit to settle. He
| promised an engraver tbe right to publish
i the portrait, and that artist claims 120,-
j 000 francs damages, as he had taken large
] orders.
One Fayard, at Brussac, did not like
j the law’s delays against his adversary,
| Souligoux. He mined the latter's dwell
ing bouse, placed dynamite and gun
powder under a wall, laid down wire and
| set up an electric battery, etc. The house
was all but consumed, and the family had
the narrowest of escapes. Sentence,
transportation for life.
: The Duke of Marlborough has been in
terviewed. He has no intention, just now,
to sell off his pictures aud gems, yet he
admits that noblemen ought not to keep
such. The State or corporations should
purchase them for museums to elevate
the working classes, and perhaps a few of
the creme de la creme also.
M. Grevy never exercises clemency to
wards parricides; thus Masquelin, who
murdered alter outraging his mother,
aged 03, has been condemned at Douai to
be guillotined.
A Mystery Explained.
Poston Bulletin.
A few miles beyond Victoria we had
the fortune to witness the termination of
a Mexican revolutionary battle. There
were several hundred engaged on each
side, armed mostly with old flint-lock
muskets, Queen Anne arms, blunder
busses, horse-pistols, etc., etc., and they
were stationed so far apart that their shot
did each other no damage, the most of the
bullets cutting up the ground midway
between the combatants. Wo got into
the midst of them belore we were made
aware of the fact by being hailed by an
officer, who demanded our passports, and
as these documents had been fixed all
right at Victoria, he declared them to be
“regular,” and after this treated us with
marked consideration.
lie invited us to accompany him, saying
that he would conduct us to a place of
safety in rear of his forces, where a good
view of the whole action could be obtain
ed. The belligerents soon began to fire
again, and after each volley of bullets
they would send another of vile epithets
and oaths, and the two different sets of
missiles were equally effective, except in
the case of a poor old woman, who was
hit by a stray bullet and slightly wound
ed.
I asked why they did not reduce the dis
tance between the armies, charge upon
the enemy aud put them to flight, or do
something besides stand there and waste,
ammunition and call one another vile
names. The answer was that the oppo
site party was composed of very valiant
men, and if a charge were made upon
them that they would not run away, but
would stand their ground, and think
nothing ot killing any of the assaulting
party; and that was a catastrophe which
they seemed to think should be avoided in
warfare. And then again the revolution
now in progress had sadly split up fami
lies and communities, and many of the
men on one side had friends or relatives
on the other, and they ieared the conse
quences of a close light.
This explained the mystery, it was just
a little family quarrel about who should
govern them, amt how he should do it,
and though they all had their preferences,
still the.* did not wish to shed each other’s
blood about it. It reminded me of what a
Mexican had said to me in regard to the
American soldiers as fighting men. He
bold that the Americans did not know
how to fight, that they were in the impro
per habit ot rushing right on to their ad
versaries and sticking bayonets into
them, instead of standing off and shooting
as they ought, and as other nations did”
who had received a better training and
were more civilized.
He said it was this that caused the
Mexican array to run away from them at
Buena Vista aud other places. Tney
would not stand to be bayoneted; it was
not the way to fight. Another thing
about the Americans, and it was the
worst fault ot all, he said, that they would
not give up when they had been fairly
whipped. Santa Anna said ofGen.Tav
lor at Buena Vista, that he “had whipped
that d—d Yankee General five times that
day, but he did not know enough to be
aware of it, and it was no use in lighting
such a man as that.”
The First Inauguration.
Ben : Per ley Poore's Reminiscence*.
William Dunlap, the artist, graphically
described the appearance of Washington
and other dignitaries at the first inaugura
tion. The oath was administered on the
balcony of Federal Hall, in Wall street,
New York, where a statue of Washington
now marks the spot. This building had
been erected for the accommodation of
Congress under the direction of Major
L’Entant, a French officer of engineers,
who afterwards planned the city of Wash
ington. In front ot the balcony were the
volunteer companies of militia in full uni
form, with a large concourse of citizens.
Gen. Washington is described as having
worn that day a plain suit of brown cloth,
coat, waistcoat and breeches of home
manufacture, even to the buttons, on
which Rolliuson, an engraver, had por
trayed the arms of the United States.
White silk stockings showed the contour
ol a manly leg; and his shoes, according
to the fashion of that day, were ornament
ed with buckles. head was uncov
ered and his hair dreSed and pow’dered,
for such was the universal custom of the
time. Thus was his tall, fine figure pre
sented to our view’ at the moment which
forms an epoch in the history ot nations.
John Adams, a shorter figure, in a simi
larly plain dress, but w’ith the (even then)
old-fashioned Massachusetts wig, stood at
Washington’s right hand, and opposite to
the President-elect stood Chancellor Liv
ingston in a full suit of black, ready to
administer the prescribed oath of office.
Between them was placed 3lr. Otis, the
Clerk of the Senate, a small man, bearing
the Bible on a cushion. In the back
ground of this picture and in the right
and left compartments formed by the
pillars stood the warriors and sages of the
Revolution.
When all was ready Gen. Washington
stretched forth his right hand with that
simplicity and dignity which character
ized all his actions, and placed it on the
open book. The oath of office was read,
the Bible was raised and he bowed bis
head upon it, reverentially kissing it.
The Chancellor then made proclamation,
“God save George Washington, President
of the United States of America.” A
shout went up from the multitude, cannon
were fired near by, the music plaved and
every one appeared delighted.
The Mullein Plant.
Dr. Quillan, a celebrated physician of
Dublin, has just written, in an English
medical journal, of his wonderrul experi
mental results with the common mullein
plant upon lung and bronchial affections,
citing cases where he had given it to con
sumptives with the most astonishing
result, and recommends its use by the
profession. Referring to the above', we
would state that “Taylor’s Cherokee
Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein,”
made from the formula of the medicine
men of the Cherokee Nation, is composed
not only of the mullein plant, but has in
corporated with it the sweet gum, the
finest stimulating expectorant known,
presenting an agreeable taste and a cer
tain panacea for Coughs, Croup, Whoop
ing Cough, Colds and all Bronchial Affec
tions. For sale by all leading druggists
at 25 cents and $1 per bottle.
Manufactured by Walter A. Taylor,
Atlanta. Ga., proprietor Taylor’s Pre
mium Cologne.— Adv,
FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND TRUTH.
Address ofP. G. M. Thomas A. Askew,
Delivered at the 42d Anniversary of
Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F
Forty-two years! How full of meaning,
these few but comprehensive words; what
wondrous works have been compressed with
in that period of the world’s history; what
changes in its maps— what progress in its
culture, arts, sciences, civilization, literature,
commerce, manufactures, and all theelements
which makeup the intellectual and material
supplies of life, and which so profusely ad
minister to the comfort, happiness and w ealth
of man.
To-night we do not propose to follow these
changes or go over the world's history during
the period named, but confine ourselves to a
brief review of Odd Fellowship and what it
has done since the first lodge was instituted in
Georgia. On the 4th of March, 1842, the first
lodge of Odd Fellows was instituted, and the
first altar of Odd Fellowship was erected in
Georgia, and the flag of the order proudly
hoisted to the pinnacle of its first temple, and
as the gentle southern breeze kissed and un
furled it the never-dying mottoes of the order,
“Friendship, Love and Truth” and “In God
we Trust,” shone forth in bold relief,
proclaiming its mission to the dwellers of
your beautiful city, and caused them to won
der what was it and why it came to dwell
among them. Upon a careful and thorough
investigation they found that it was an in
stitution every way worthy of their confi
dence and support; found that Odd Fellowship
hail its origin with the sons of toil—its object
relief, protection and brotherly love—its
principles were wisdom and common sense
applied to practice. It was to lead'men
whose daily bread depended upon their daily
toil to form a common fund, and
thus secure in health the means of support
when prostrated by uisease. Tims fraternity,
sick benefits and charity constituted the ground
work of this noble order. All these are (hixed
up with the daily life of man. Fraternity is
large and develops the soul. Benefits and
charity flow from it as freely as water fronr a
clear, pure and bubbling spring. Thus good
will to men, thus care and protection of the
widow and the orphan, has bound and ever
will bind Odd Fellowship together with the
lasting links of Friendship, liove and Truth.
Asa rule, men are many times sick before
they die. And while new orders, modeled
after Odd Fellowship, promise to pay certain
sums to the family of a brother, after his
death, tin* first principle of Odd Fellowship,
instituted at its birth, is to bonelit a brother
when iu life and at the time they mostly need
the brotherly care and aid of their fellow -
men. By virtue of our fraternity, our care of
tile sick and distressed, our protection of
the Widow and the orphan, and our burial
of the dead, we have become a great
beneficial, moral, intellectual and educational
institution. Our cause is, therefore, worthy
of the noblest aspirations of man, and a
cause as equally our duty to advocate as it is
our pleasure to pursue. True, onr n0,,,,, is
singular one, yet to us it is an honorable one.
Some say we go back as far as the creation
for the name that Adam was undoubtedly
j the first Odd Fellow. Perhaps he was; our
name may not sound as soft and melodious, or
embody in its meauing the riavs of chivalry
and its deeds of valor on the battlefields of
earth, vet
“Though Odd our name, and wrapt in mys
tery’s shroud.
Our acts, our deeds, shall speak'for us aloud,
By them alone we stand or fall;
VVe hold the hand of fellowship to all.
Gould all the world our secret action see.
Mankind one mighty Brotherhood would be.”
Our name lias been rendered dear* to onr
hearts by its glorious deeds of benevolence aud
philanthropy, and by the great moral and re
ligious principles associated with it, until iis
singularity is lost in its moral value aud
beauty.
The great first principle of the order being
fraternity—a universal fraternity of the
j family of man, and recognizing the fact,
I written in fearful emblems on the broad face
I of creation, that misery and misfortune, Ues
i titution and death are in the earth, and every
: where to be met with, cal ing for commisera
tion, succor and sacrifice, to dry the tear upon
the cheek of sorrow, to lift the veil from the
darkened abode of want, to raise the droop
ing head bowed in solitude and mourning aud
dying for sympathy, to ameliorate and soften
; the evils to which humanity is subject; these
sacred injunctions to feel for and relieve
other’s woes, Odd Fellowship faithfully keeps.
Odd Fellowship asks no question as to man’s
religious faith or political principles, but
rests satisfied when it becomes manifest ttiat
he is an upright man—a man of integrity, a
true man, fearing God and loving what God
has made. It loves the poor man in his rags
as well as a Prince in his purple. In the
lodge room the distinction which the pride
and arrogance or men set up between
classes and conditions of men are broken
down, and all stand upon a common level. Its
tendency is to soften the asperities of life,
subdue party strife, and by the sweet aud
powerful attraction of its teachings unite in
one harmonious brotherhood men of all
classes and creeds. The sunbeams do not ask
if it be a genial soil before they fall upon it.
The raindrops do not ask, be it desert sand or
prolific earth before they light upon it, but
sunbeams and rain fall upon the evil as well
as the good, thereby teaching us that our
love, our charity and our compassions are not
to be guided at all by the element of faith, of
creeds, of sects or of nations, but by the great
law, tliat wherever humanity suffers there
the human heart should sympathize.
Odd Fellowship is a moral, not a religious
society. It was against vice in every form.
Friendship to man prompts the contest. The
gentle influences of love supply the weapons.
Truth consecrates the effort and leads to vic
tory. It arrays itseli against no church or
religious belief, nor does it arrogate to itself
the functions of the church, but no man can
be a member of this order unless he believes
there is a God. To convert man from his sins
and prepare his soul for death and eternity,
we leave to a better and holier institution.
Odd Fellowship has its work among suffering
humanity, and has ever shone brighter wheu
burnished in the fires of affliction. Her rituals,
her emblems, her lectures are uot taken from
historical events, or legends of old. They are
taken from the Holy Writ.
Bright pages of history, like stars beaming
out iu the midst of the dark aud stormy
heavens, reflect the lnstre of friendship, love
amt truth. But what more sublime teachings
of friendship, brotherly love and truth than
in the records of the Bible. Who has not felt
a thrill Of unspeakable sublimity when read
ing and contemplating the melting affection
of Jonathan and David? Who has not re
garded with profound reverence the noble,
self-sacrificing love of the great lawgiver of
the Jews? Where do you find a more beauti
ful illustration of “Love thy neighbor as thy
self” than in the parable of the good Samari
tan? Where more glorious teaching of troth
than we find in the Bible, and which has its
place on our altars?
These are the ground work that form onr
three links, these are what makes our ritual
so grand and impressive, our lectures such
gems of beauty. Emblems and symbols were
once used to more fully impress’ the scholar
and a people with the great truths taught.
So are they used in Odd Fellowship to impress
upon its votaries the teachings ot the order.
Tnev are taken from the starry heavens and
the beautiful earth, they are displayed on the
walls of our iodge rooms, they adorn the per
sons of her members. Those various colored
regalias you see around you, those jewels that
are attached to them, all have tlieir appro
priate mean ng, each and all of them have a
lesson to impart, and they speak more elo
quently than the words from the lips. As there
are sermons in trees, stones aud running
brooks, so there are sermons in every emblem
of Odd Fellowship.
Odd Fellowship asks no special notorictv.
It seeks not the shout of the multitude nor the
praises of the bigot. It has lived long enough
to make a reputation and to gain the worth's
recognition. Out of the “nettle danger” she
has plucked the flower of safety, and in the
golden promise light of the future, its ever
living principles will bear it down the stream
of time until time shall he no more. Planted
like an acorn it has grown into a majestic
oak. Though horn in obscurity, nurtured in
poverty, raekeil amidst storms, passing
through pestilence, tire and the horrors
of war, with foes without and enemies
within, she has grown in strength, in useful
ness, and iu the affections of the good aud
true, wherever her altars have been erected.
When sculptured monuments ami marble
tombs shall be no more, when honor’s gaudy
plumes shall wither and decay, when magnifi
cent temples and lofty domes shall be leveled
with the ground, the triumph of the princi
ples of Odd Fellowship shall flourish in im
mortal youth—they shall never perish.
The Hag with its mottoes that was
I planted on the banks of your own
Savannah 42 years ago, not oniv waves there
still, but has been carried and planted all over
your State, and now waves from the seaboard
to the mountains, from the Savannah to the
Chattahoochee. To-night we assemble here
as a band of brothers, and with fair and lovely
women as our guests, to celebrate the42d birth
day of the first lodge instituted in Georgia—
Oglethorpe I-odge No. 1, which was instituted
: ou March 4, 1842, with five charter members,
1 and was named in honor of bint who planted
the first colony on the hanks of the
Savannah, and the founder of your beauti
ful and renowned city and State.
Some of the youthful brothers of the
order call her the Old Fogy Lodge,
others express themselves that the old fogies
had better retire and give way to youug
blood. If by calling us old fogies they mean
that Oglethorpe Lodge has ever been true to
the pure teachings of the order—that she has
followed the landmarks—that she has en
deavored to practice what the Order teaches
—that she has beeu conservative in her coun
cils—always cultivating brotherly love—that
she visits her sick, protects her widows and
orphans, we accept the name and feel proud
of it, and unless the comiug youug blood can
surpass her in all these and in her devotion to
the true principles of the order, and more
faithfully perforin their obligations, Ogle
thorpe will nail the llag of Odd Fellowship to
its staff and never surrender it to their keep
ing until her old fogies die of old age.
Other brothers, whether with feelingof love
or disrespect, call her “Grandmother Ogle
thorpe.” Well she is not as particular as sonic
are about their ages. She is willing to stand
by the record of her birth, and even thinks
i herself still youthful, although her descend
ants have numbered over 100. She expects to
see many more lodges enroll as her offspring,
and may bury many of them before she dies
of old age. She is vain enough to believe that
she will live as long as the order has its name
—forever. She promises in the future to be
as an affectionate parent to her DeKalb, Live
Oak, liaupt and Golden Rule, as she has been
in the past.
The string of her door-latch hangs always
on the outside, and a hearty welcome within,
at ail times, for those that will pull and
enter. She has ever watched with pride the
progress and growth of those I have named,
beside those of her children scattered through
out this grand old State: and as the name of
grandmother brings with it fond, affectionate
and endearing love, she can therefore bestow
on them all a grandmother's blessing.
Of the live charter members of the Ogle
thorpe Lodge, one still survives, and we still
greet him rs an Odd Fellow; he 10 with ue to
night to testify to the. benefits derived from
the establishment of the first Lodge of Odd
Fellows in Georgia. I refer to Alvin N. Mil
ler, first Noble Grand of Oglethorpe, and first
Graud Master of Odd Fellows in Georgia. I*.
G. A. P. Torlay initiated August 28, 1842, is
the next oldest member; then comes I’. G.
Chas. Gross, January 13, 1843, P. G. Chaa. F.
Preston, January t>, 1844, P. G. Wm. Burns,
September 17, 1844, P. G. John G. Deitz, Feb
ruary 5, 1845, are all that are left of the old
veteran members of the lodge. The next oldest
living memlier was initiated in D56.
These brothers have all been faith
ful, true Odd Fellows, and have through
their long years of membership ever shown
the deep interest thev have in the order.
Live Oak No. 3 and Ilefvalb No. 9 come next
in order of lodges in your city, both instituted
at the earlier period of Odd Fellowship here,
and they have ever maintained the true
principle of the order. Live Oak having fur
nished Grand Treasurer, Grand Masters and
Grand Representatives to the order; DeKulb
having furnished also Grand Masters, Grand
Representatives and a Grand Sire to the
oruer.
Hope No. 58 was the first lodge instituted
in Savannah after the late war. She has
gradually and surely laid the foundation of a
large and prosperous lodge, equal num
bers to the old grandmother, and doing more
towards increase of her membership. We
have next Golden Rule, the youngest lodge in
the city, with the youngest and most youthful
members. She has made a bright and shining
record for her age, and if there is anything in
young blood she should be the mo st prosper
ous lodge iu the jurisdiction.
We recognize here to-night many of the old
veterans of the order, and their cheerful
faces show that it is a pleasure for them to be
here; and as we behold their gray we
arc led to exclaim:
“ Fraternal Love shines forth to-night,
Enkindled long ago:
The festal feelings clear and bright, *
Make veterans’ pulses glow.
Ye Brothers of the frosty pow,
Give glad emotions play.
And feel as warm enjoyment now
As in that younger day.
With hearty vim your voices raise
And wreaths melodious twine.
To bind the joys of ripened days
With those of Auld Lang Syne.”
But we miss from this assemblage of Odd
Fellows those old veterans who, when last
we met on an occasion like this were present
with us, but have been called from their la
bors here, I hope to a better home in heaven.
I refer to P. G. John Oliver, of Oglethorpe.
P. G. M. F. 1). Jordau, of Dekalb. Past
Grands James W. White and John W. Wilson,
of Live Oak. and P. G. M. Chas. C. Millar, of
Haupt Lodge, all of whom devoted the greater
part of their lives to the good of the order, and
they were spared to see its wonderful growth.
While the übsense of these brothers
must give rise to sad memories of the past,
be it ours to emulate their virtues, and to so
live and act as Odd Fellows, that when we
cume to fait aaieep we may, like them, have
a page in the great volume of human exist
ence, dedicated to our memory, and upon it
our name, though humble it be, inscribed by
the widow’s hand, bedewed by the orphan’s
tear.
The record of Oglethorpe Lodge from its in
stitution to 1843 was lost that year when their
hall was destroyed by fire. Since that
period the records are full and
complete; but I will not weary yon with her
history since that time, but will state that
from tier first return to the Grand Lodge of
the United Slates, made up to September,
1843, she had increased to 113 members. She
has since her institution initialed t>92, ad
mitted by card 119, buried 75, relieved 415,
relieved 144 families, paid out for sick benefits
$19,225, to widows and orphans $12,250, burial
of brothers and brothers’ wives s3,loo—total
paid out for benefits s32,s7s—which is no small
sum—towards the reliet of the sick and
distressed w ithin her bounds. She has had
fifty-one Noble Grands, and her present Sec
retary has served her for twenty-seven years.
The other lodges, no doubt have done equally
as well since their organization in proportion
ta the time thay have been working, since
Oglethorpe started there has been 104 lodges
instituted in the State, There are now forty
lodges working, and a cheering prospect that
several new lodges will apply for charter at
the next session of the Grand Lodge. The
whole number of Odd Fellows in the United
States forty-two years ago was 30,043, and
they had paid out from 1830 to that time st;i>,-
000 for benefit. The order now lias lodges in
every State and Territory *f the Union,in Can
ada, has crossed the ocean, aud is established
in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, has
entered Chili, Mexico and the Isle of the
Sea, and now numbers 510,414 members, an
increase of 18,050 since 18S2. It expended for
relief in 1882 $1,882,443 88, and from 1833 to 1883
$34,490,988 23; lias relieved 1,044,480 brothers;
has relieved 138,085 brothers' families. This is
the showing of her works made in dollars and
cents; but words cannot express the value of
the glorious work it has done and is doing in
softening sympathies, smoothing prejudice,
cultivating forbearance, toleration hud
charity.
These are the results and progress of an or
der established here 42 years ago—these are
what are left you by its workers. W hen we
remember its progress, and look back to its
founders, we cannot but exclaim, what a
noble heritage has been left us. With the
holy memories and blessed inspirations of the
past let us go forward to nobler and greater
achievements. Then,
“Up with vonr banner, a standard more fair
Never flashed in the sunlight or waved in
the air,
A precept more holy ne’er came from above
Than its bcantiful legend, Truth, Friend
ship and Love.”
Brothers, from the teachings of the order you
are commanded to go where duty calls to
ameliorate the condition of the human race,
not only on the land, but the sea: to go when
the diamond-gemmed curtain of night robes
the silver queen iu glory; to go when the vir
gin rays of the rising suti are lapping the
dew drops fr m the slumbering flowers; to
go when utter darkne-s shrouds the world in
gloom, while the storm lashes the foaming
billows; to go where squalid misery lives un
cared for in a hovel; anil where ever Along the
slippery pathways of lire the bruised heart
pauts for deliverance, where misfortune has
placed her signal, where life is to be adminis
tered to or death to be cared for, there is your
work, my brethren.
The past is recorded. The future is now
before us. The canvas is untouched. What
shall we paint there ? Things of beauty that
shall live forever, or shall it be deeds of dark
ness that shall bring us misery forever ? The
mighty principles of humau brotherhood, hu
man affection—a common journey of life, a
common home hereafter, is our polar star,
and let us follow it with eager
steps. We must, we cannot stand
still—it is either forward or backward. Rest
means stagnation, stagnation death. Action
is life and health and strength, and 1 trust
that each one of us will feel and realize these
truths. Cling to vour principle, live up to its
spirit, and your lives will be untarnished.
Why are your Lodges at a stand? It is the
want of action by individual members. If
every member will do bis duty to his Lodge
and tbe order, your Lodges will grow, thev
cannot staud still. Recollect that he
who lays aside the noble teachings
of our order when he leaves the lodge room,
to be resumed again at the next meeting, is
but a dean form of Odd Fellowship. Its liv
ing principles must go with you in the count
ing room. the work shop, the busy marts of
trade, that you may scatter good seed by the
wayside in your daily pilgrimage of life, be
lieving in the Divine assurance that it will
return to yon a hundred fold. Fill up. there
fore, ray brothers, your every-day life with
the Godly teachings of our order, and with
such principles in practice, you must secure
the golden harvest of God’s approval and
man’s respect.
Why, ray brothers, is it that in the far West
the growth of the order has been so rapid? It
is that every pioneer that settles in its wilds
carries his Odd Fellowship with him and
practices its teachings, though lie may be
twenty, miles from a lodge. We in this city
find every form of excuse for not attending
to our duties, when our lodge is almost
at our very door. How beautifully does
a brother Odd Fellow describe au
incident that ocurred in the far
distant West, and what sweet memories of
it lingered in the heart of her who, when far
from the haunts of meu, alone in a dreary,
snow-bound pioneer cabin—alone with her
dead—was sought after and cared for by the
brother whose duty it was to visit the "sick,
and who journeyed on foot twenty dreary
miles to perform that sacred duty. Pardon
mo for quoting it, but I deem it applicable;
WIIAT IS AN ODD FELLOW?
BY J. r. M AKSII, M. ~ P. G., 675, I. 0. 0. F.
An aged lady one day in her parlor was sit
ting,
And thoughts of the past through memory
were flitting,
And scenes of long years, o'er life’s rugged
way.
Came up* like some phautom, and to her did
say:
“Tell me, aged mother, tell me, I pray,
What is an Odd Fellow? ’
Musing a momeut, she turned on her chair,
Aud the silver threads glistened in the once
raven hair,
And she smiled in such sadness, ’twould make
the heart ache,
And with sobbing emotions, as though it
would break,
She said: “Listen a momeut, in Ihe twilight
so mellow,
And I will aßswer your question, What is an
Odd FellowZ
Long years ago, in the summer of lif •,
There came to this country a man and his
wife,
Who were strong and sturdy, like the mouu
tain oak,” —
And tear-drops gathered as the old lady
spoke,—
“And they were strangers and lonely;
They dwelt on the plain
Where God's beautiful flowers
And rich goldon grain
Sprang up from the earth
In beauty so rare.
Aud tne fragrance of flowers ladcned the
air,
And near a smooth, silver lake, by the forest
trees fair,
A rude home was built, which sheltered the
pair
From the storms and blasts of winter so cold,
And the wild, shrieking tempest,
As onward it rolled.
Long dreary days merged into years,
And each one was freighted with its hopes
aud its fears;
Till death, like a tyrant, came in at our door,
And from this aching bosom my husband he
- torc.-
Alone, alone, in the dark, dreary night,
I watched in my sorrow
By the candle's dim light.
And as the day star peeped in on the floor
I heard a soft rap on my rude cabin door,
And turning away from the form wan and
thin,
I bid the stranger a welcome in.
Who are you? I said, as he sat near my hearth
And gazed on the form of the dearest of earth,
When he spoke in a tone so soft and so mel
low,
‘I am a brother to your husband, he was an
Odd Fellow;
News came last night just after eight
That a brother was sick, and I could not wait
For fear the morning would be too late.
Twenty long miles afoot and alone
I have come to care for one of our own.
First let me ask yon, have yon bread?
And after that 1 will bury our dead.
And when the sad rites are faithfully done
My poor weeping sister
Must go with me home.
For affection has opened the fountain so deep;
But God will comfort my sister
While she her bitter tears weep.
Like crystals they will glitter with beauty so
bright,
And sparkle with gladness like tlie stars of the
night.’
O God in the heavens, can this he true."
Yes, those three golden links
And collar of blue—this Is my
Answer, deny it who can—
An Odd Fellow in spirit
Is naught but God’s man.”
Here you have the true spirit of Odd Fel
lowship carried out, a brother performing
faithfully his duty, and given to that sweet
tender sympathy "so much prized. Words of
sympathy to the atlletcd and despondent are
like “apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
“No radiant pearl, which crested fortune
wears;
No gem that twinkling hangs from beauty’s
ears,.
Not the bright stars, which uight-bluc arch
adorn,
Nor rising sun, that gilds the vernal morn;
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
Down virtue’s raauly cheek for others’ woes.”
Brothers, let us go front this place with re
newed courage and vigor, to visit more regular
the sick, the widow and the orphan—to give
fresh consolation and aid to the unfortunate,
to arouse the indifferent, to labor more car
nestly to extend these noble virtues, whose
names are the “motto and watchword of our
order.” Our earthly pilgrimage, at the long
est, is but short. We will crowd into it all
the kind words, noble deeds and influences for
good that we possibly can; we will
“Sow love and taste its fruitage pure:
bow pfacc aud reap its harvest grand;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor;
Make earth itself—the happy laud.
Address of P. (1. Thomas A. Askew on
the Delivery of the Portrait of Charles
Gross, Secretary of the Lodge, which
Had Been Ordered by the Lodge.
.Voile Grand and Brothers of Oglethorpe
thorjie Lodge No. /, I. O. O. F.: A few months
ago, during the absence from your regular
meeting of an old and beloved officer of your
lodge, yon embraced the opportunity thus of
feted to pass by an unanimous vote, and with
an enthusiasm rarely witnessed, the appoint
ment of a special committee of one, to request
that absent brother to sit for a portrait,
which you desire to have adorn the
wall of your lodge room. Hav
ing had the honor of being appointed
that committee, I am ready to-night to place
in your keeping the portrait ordered. Ogle
thorpe Lodge, Noble Grand, has honored her
self In thus remembering a faithful officer, a
true Odd Fellow—one who has been identified
with you and the order almost from ymtr very
existence and its existence here. Initiated in
your lodge on January 17, 1843, less than a
year after you were instituted as a lodge, he
has served almost under every Noble Grand.
A young man then, he has grown old in your
service; yet he ts as enthusiastic in the
work now as he was then. He has
passed all the chairs and has faithfully served
you many times ip the Grand Lodge of yonr
state. Elected to till the office of both Re
cording and Permanent Secretary in 1857, he
has held that office ever since, and still faith
fully serves yon in that capacity. But few of
his comrades of the early days of tlie order in
this city are left. He lias followed most of
them to their last resting place and dropped
the tear of friendship and brotherly love on
their graves. He has listened to the
Noble Grand’s charge from the learned
Lloyd, the Past Grand charge from
Hie eloquent Griffin,heard the Warden charge
as given by the inimitable Tuffts, lias heard
the brotherly counsels of Anderson, and the
reasoning and debate of Wayne, Millar, Law
rence, Posey, Purse, Read,Scott, and a host of
other brothers, who were the shining lights
iu Odd Fellowship during its early days in
this city, and now he can well exclaim— '
“I feel like one who (reads alone.
Some banquet hall deserted;
Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead,
And all but I departed.”
He is, as it were, the middle link of the
chain that binds us to the past. In the office
that he has held so many years, has he served
you most.
He has carefully guarded the funds of your
lodge, always ready to do justice to those‘whqf
rightly claimed, ever firm in resisting every
thing that he believed was not just. Faith
fully has he stood at his post through war,
through pestilence, when prosperity smiles on
you and when adversity casts its shadow over
you, never missing a meeting during his
term of service unless caused by sickness of
himself or family, ever at the bedside of the
sick brother, ever looking after the wants of
the widow and the orphan, and when at every
meeting the question is asked, “If any were
sick or m distress?” his familiar voice would
be heard, “Many in distress.” He has been
no lodge room Odd Fellow, but has carried
the principles of the order in his every-day
life, and during his long years of membership
he has ever retained and justly earned the
name of being a true Odd Fellow, an affec
tionate husband and father, a firm friend, a
good citizen, a kind neighbor, an honest Chris
tian man. It can well be said of him,
“That man is great, and he alone
* Who serves a greatness not his own
For neither praise nor pelf;
Content to know and be unknown,
Whole in himself.”
Such, Noble Grand, is the services and.char
acter of the old veteran you to-night desire to
honor; therefore to your keeping 1 now place
the portrait of your beloved Secretary, P. G.
Charles Gross. Knowing by the brotherly
love you bear him tHat it will ever be cher
ished bv you long after our'brother has ceased
from his labors here, and when generations
to come shall gaze upon that face they will
have learned of his virtues, his long services,
and his devotion to the order and to Ogle
thorpe Lodge. May our beloved brother long
be spared to fill his place in tne lodge, in his
family, and in the hearts of the brotherhood.
IN LUCK.
i Young Attorney who Received an Un
expected Legacy.
Mr. B. W. Belden, who is employed in
the wholesale drug house of Meyer Bros.
& Cos., on Second street, between Market
and Chestnut, in St. Louis, is in luck,
says the Missouri Republican of March
4th. The fickle goddess has turned a gol
den shower upon him, as it were, filling
his heart w ith joy and his pockets with
“the root of all evil.” About four years
ago Mr. Belden was a resident of New r
Orleans, where he was licensed to prac
tice iaw T . Among his clients was an ojd
shoemaker named Hepe, who had been ar
rested upon a charge of assault with in
tent to kill, and had called upon the young
man to protect him from the heavy hand of
the law. Being comparatively inexpe
rienced and possessing that confidence in
human nature which a protracted
legal practice is supposed to destroy,
Mr. Belden did not demand a retainer,
but proceeded vigorously to work for the
old shoemaker’s freedom. He was suc
cessful, but when he came to ask for his
fee the old man pleaded poverty and prom
ised to pay some time in the future. Had
Mr. Belden levied upon Hepe’s lasts,
hammers, awls and lapstoues, and be
have in a spiteful, vindictive w r ay gener
ally, he would probably have been de
prived of the pleasure which thrills him
to-day, but instead he generously forgave
the old man the debt and ever afterwards
transacted his legal business for him with
very little hope of ever receiving a dollar
for his services. Everybody supposed
that Hepe was wretchedly poor, and of
course such a thing as his paying a law
yer’s fee was utterly out of the question.
Although the old man neglected to pay,
he didn't forget the lawyer’s generosity.
About a year ago Mr. Belden gave up
the practice of law and came to St. Louis,
leaving Hepe working for a bare existence,
apparently, in his little shop in New Or
leans. About ten days ago the shoemaker
became involved in a difficulty with a
young man, was shot, and killed. When
his dead body was taken home his aged
w’ife was so shocked at being so suddenly
deprived of her protector that she fell to
the floor in a fit and died the following
day. Among Hepe’s effects was found a
will in which he bequeathed his property,
which amounted, much to the surprise of
everybody, to about SIO,OOO, to his wife,
and provided that in the event of her
death it should go to Mr. Belden. Yester
day the latter received a telegram from
New Orleans announcing his good for
tune, and he will shortly visit the Cres
cent City to take possession of the pro
perty.
The Latest English Scandal.
Springfield Republican.
IJThe latest scandal in the English peer
age is the attempt of the heir to the Duke
dom of Grafton to get rid of his wife.
This person, when merely Henry Fitz
Roy, fill in love with and married a beau
tilul woman of bad reputation, known as
Kate Cook. Presently his lather became
seventh Duke of Grafton, and he was
Earl of Eusten. Meantime he anil his
wife separated by mutual agreement,
and, although he would have been glad
enough to get a divorce, there was noth
ing to allege against her since their mar
riage. He has now succeeded, it appears,
in hunting up a mythical “Mr. Smith,”
who is to act the part of Kate Cook’s first
husband, and thus relieve the prospective
peer from his marriage bonds. To decent
republicans it does not seem at all un
fitting that a woman of dubious reputa
tion should become Duchess of Grafton,
for she will only share honors with the
mistress of Charles 11, who founded the
family, the very name of which, Fitz Roy,
bears witness to the heritage of dishonor.
A botanist says that by soaking the
stems of cut flowers in a weak dve solu
tion their colors can be altered ’at will
without the perfume and freshness being
destroyed.
ALTMAYER S
135 Broughton Street.
Announcement Sale
-OF
SPRING HOSIERY!
Commencing MONDAY, March 10,
VST HEN we will display the largest variety
YY of Plain and Fancy HOSIERY ever be
fore shown in the citv, and at prices that will
astonish the retail trade generally, and the
only comment for us to make is that pur
chasers should take advantage of the immense
bargains offered in this department.
250 dozen Ladies’ Unbleached Balbriggan
Hose, full regular extra length, at 18c. per
pair, worth 25c.
200 dozen Ladies’ Unbleached and Solid Col
ors Silk Clocked Hose, perfectly seamless, at
a uniform price of 25c. per pair.
We call particular attention to the quality
of these goods, as it is positively the greatest
bargain ever offered in Ladies’Hose.
150 dozen Ladies’ Solid Color Brilliant Lisle
Extra Fine, Full Regular Hose at 55c., worth
from 75c. to sl.
1 lot 750 pairs importer’s samples Ladies'
Unbleached Balbriggan Silk Clocked Perfect
ly Seamless Hose, in various grades and prices
ranging from 18c. to *7>4c. per pair, goods
worth double the money.
100 dozen Misses’ Fancy and Solid Colors
Ribbed Hose, perfectly seamless, extra length,
fast colors, sizes 5 to B>j, at 25c. per pair, worth
50c. I)o not fail to examine this line.
75 dozen Misses’Solid Brilliant Lisle Hose,
new colors, sizes 5 to at 35e. per pair—the
best value for the money ever bought.
As our specialties in Gents’ Hosiery cannot
lie surpassed and not having the space to
enumerate the various grades and styles, we
will be pleased to show to our gentlemen pat
rons our extensive stock.
In calling attention to the items quoted
above it is important to bear in mind that
they are simply an iudex to tliqextraordinarv
bargains offered in all our other departments.
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO..
185 BROUGHTON STREET.
PLATSIIEK’B
POPULAR BARGAINS!
WE OFFER THIS WEEK:
50 dozen Ladies’ 3-PLY’ LINEN COL
LARS, clerical shape, with cape, 10c.,
worth elsewhere 18c.
35 dozen Ladies’ 4-I’LY LINEN COL
LARS, with cape “La Byron” shape, the
present craze, 15c., worth elsewhere 25c.
25 dozen Ladies' Hemstitched COL
LARS, exquisite linen, with cape (anew
design ), 25c., full value at 35c.
IIEADQUARTEHS FOR
KID GLOVES, PARASOLS, EMBROIDERIES
Prn ©oolo.
If you fall to secure those excellent bargains, which we are offering.
We are crowded with customers from early morning until closing time, yet w< are
aw’are there are a great many people who can’t realize the extraordinary bargains
which we are giving, and without trying to convince themselves, think it impossible
that we can sell goods so low, and put it down as an advertising dodge.
IF YOD DO NOT WISH TO GROW WISER AND SAVE MONEY
Of course we can’t make you, yet we make this appeal to you for the purpose f
changing your mind.
LISTEN TO OUR QUOTATIONS!
Y’ard wide, best quality, FRUIT OF THE LOOM SHIRTING, by the piece, at. Bjic
Y"ard wide, best quality, LONSDALE CAMBRIC, per yard, at 11c
Merimack fancy SHIRTING CAMBRIC, worth Bc., at fie
Good quality QINGHAM CHECKS, worth Bc., at lie
8-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETING, good quality, worth 25c., at. I.V
8-4 BLEACHED SHEETING, good quality, worth 25c., at ’ 17c
10-4 BLEACHED SHEETING, the celebrated New Y’ork Mills, at 30
75 cents quality BLACK CASHMERE at 60c
75 cents quality COLORED CASHMERE, all the new shades, at 00
Our immense’ assortment of SPRING DRESS GOODS at low prices.
The best stock of SEERSUCKERS in the city at S%, 10 and 12}£c.
We Have Made a Decided Hit with Our Silks.
During the last ten days we have sold not less than 1,500 yards. Such a thin.' is
really marvellous; but why ? Because our SILKS are of the best makes and
fully one-third less in price than they can be obtained elsewhere.
DO YOU WISH TO PURCHASE
EMBROIDERIES, LACES, GLOVES, CORSETS, HANDKERCHIEFS and NICK
NACKS be sure to call on us, our assortment is of the largest and
our prices the lowest.
PEARL DRESS BUTTONS!
We offer an excellent quality of PEARL DRESS BUTTONS at 7c., Bc., 9c. and l l -
They are positively worth double.
OUT R BAZAAR
Is chock a block with genuine bargains. We offer 20 different styles of KILT and
PANTS’ SUITS, from 4 to 12 years of age, from the cheapest to the
finest quality, at very reasonable prices.
LADIES’ UNDERWEAR.
There never has been a finer line in Savannah. We have all qualities, from the
lowest grade to the finest hand embroidered imported goods, and at marvelously I "’
prices. We make a special offering of
50 dozen LADIES’ CHEMISES and DRAWERS, at. l9e
20 dozen LADIES’ NIGHTGOWNS, worth sl, at. 60c
25 dozen LADIES’ NIGHTGOWNS and CHEMISES, worth $1 50, at. $1 00
However, our entire stock of LADIES’ UNDERWEAR must be examined to ; *
able to appreciate our choice styles and low prices.
Another Wonderful Bargain in Our Bazaar:
50 Dozen Rents’ Half Hose, full regular made, worth from aflf.
to 75c. a pair, at se. only.
These goods are Importers’ Samples, and represent hundreds of different grades
styles and patterns. First comes, first served.
REMEMBER,
If you do not wish to be disappointed vou can’t afford to come at any time, for som -
of these bargains may not last twenty-four hours; and if one or two articles are sold 1
out, we can’t change the advertisement lor the week.
urn ■ a in
iUatrljco, ett.
v. i„. i>ldssnoiTi jh,
SAVANNAH, CEORCIA,
Dealer in WATCHES, JEWELRY and SILVERWARE- -
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
Rockford, 111., January 1, 1884.
This is to certify we have ap
pointed A. L. DESBOUILLONS Sole
Agent for the sale of the Rockford Quick
Train Watch in Savannah, Georgia, and
that we will, to the lullest extent, sus
tain the usual warranty given by him to
purchasers of our movements. No
warranty whatever attaches to these
goods when offered for sale by others
than our duly appointed agents.
ROCKFORD WATCH CO.,
By H, P. Holland, Sec’y.
Item Aiutrriiocmfttio.
ALTMAYERS
135 Broughton Street,
GRAND REOPENING
OF Oil*
Sloe Departmoit
-ON-
Monday, March 17,
To which the pnblie is most cordially
invited to call and examine our im.
meuce stock of Fine
BOOTS, SHOES
and SLIPPERS,
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.,
135 BROUGHTON STREET.
75 dozen Misses’ Solid Colors Silk
Clocked HOSE, colors warranted last, iV>.
a pair, an inducement at 35c.
50 dozen Misses’ Solid Colors Silk
Clocked HOSE, warranted the best Eng
lish make, 35c., grand value at 50c.
15 dozen Misses' assorted patterns
HOSE, sizes from 4 to (!, odd lots, at one
half original cost, to close them out.